Vaughan Williams - Serenade
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Label: Albion Records
Cat No: ALBCD053
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 12th October 2022
Contents
Works
A Selection of Collected Folk Songs, Vol.1 » no.12 I will give my love an apple
Birthday Gifts » no.3 Pezzo ostinato (arr. Len Rhodes for organ)
Cambridge Flourishes (4) for 4 trumpetsCarols (9) for male voices
» no.9 Dives and Lazarus
Flourish for 3 trumpetsFolk Songs from Newfoundland (15)
» no.9 She's like the swallow
For all the Saints 'Sine Nomine'God be with you till we meet again
Herefordshire Carols (2) (arr. P Hindemith for brass band)
Mystical Songs (5)
» IV The Call (arr. Herbert Byard for organ)
Serenade to Music (arr. David Briggs for organ)Suite for Four Hands on one Pianoforte
The Wasps: Aristophanic Suite
» March past of the Kitchen Utensils (arr. David Briggs for organ)
The Winter's gone and pastVariations on Aberystwyth (arr. Herbert Byard for organ)
Artists
Mary Bevan (soprano)Nicky Spence (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
David Briggs (organ)
William Vann (piano)
Joshua Ryan (organ)
Lynn Arnold (piano)
Charles Matthews (piano, organ)
Tredegar Town Band
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Conductors
Ian PorthouseWilliam Vann
Works
A Selection of Collected Folk Songs, Vol.1 » no.12 I will give my love an apple
Birthday Gifts » no.3 Pezzo ostinato (arr. Len Rhodes for organ)
Cambridge Flourishes (4) for 4 trumpetsCarols (9) for male voices
» no.9 Dives and Lazarus
Flourish for 3 trumpetsFolk Songs from Newfoundland (15)
» no.9 She's like the swallow
For all the Saints 'Sine Nomine'God be with you till we meet again
Herefordshire Carols (2) (arr. P Hindemith for brass band)
Mystical Songs (5)
» IV The Call (arr. Herbert Byard for organ)
Serenade to Music (arr. David Briggs for organ)Suite for Four Hands on one Pianoforte
The Wasps: Aristophanic Suite
» March past of the Kitchen Utensils (arr. David Briggs for organ)
The Winter's gone and pastVariations on Aberystwyth (arr. Herbert Byard for organ)
Artists
Mary Bevan (soprano)Nicky Spence (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
David Briggs (organ)
William Vann (piano)
Joshua Ryan (organ)
Lynn Arnold (piano)
Charles Matthews (piano, organ)
Tredegar Town Band
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Conductors
Ian PorthouseWilliam Vann
About
We celebrate the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams, on Wednesday 12 October 2022, with this unique compilation album.
The album takes its name from Serenade to Music, transcribed here for organ by David Briggs and recorded on the Willis organ of Truro Cathedral. David also gives us quite an astonishing transformation of the March Past of the Kitchen Utensils from The Wasps.
We hear premiere recordings of a Flourish for Three Trumpets and Four 'Cambridge' Flourishes for Four Trumpets, played by members of Tredegar Town Band, and we hear the whole band later in an arrangement of Two Carols made by Paul Hindmarsh using Vaughan Williams's harmonies.
There are three folk songs from Albion's Complete Folk Songs series, but these are new recordings for this album, each of the three soloists singing a folk song previously recorded by one of the others.
Lynn Arnold and Charles Matthews reprise the early Suite for Four Hands on One Pianoforte, with the original version of the Minuet. Charles Matthews goes on to play organ arrangements of three works by Vaughan Williams.
We conclude with a hymn tune that Vaughan Williams named after his cousin and best man, Ralph Wedgwood, known to his friends as Randolph, set to words that Vaughan Williams salvaged from a Moody and Sankey hymn: God be with you till we meet again.
Serenade is a mixed bag of an album, and is both a celebration of a great anniversary and a further contribution to Albion's rich harvest of lesser-known works and new (and old) arrangements.
The album takes its name from Serenade to Music, transcribed here for organ by David Briggs and recorded on the Willis organ of Truro Cathedral. David also gives us quite an astonishing transformation of the March Past of the Kitchen Utensils from The Wasps.
We hear premiere recordings of a Flourish for Three Trumpets and Four 'Cambridge' Flourishes for Four Trumpets, played by members of Tredegar Town Band, and we hear the whole band later in an arrangement of Two Carols made by Paul Hindmarsh using Vaughan Williams's harmonies.
There are three folk songs from Albion's Complete Folk Songs series, but these are new recordings for this album, each of the three soloists singing a folk song previously recorded by one of the others.
Lynn Arnold and Charles Matthews reprise the early Suite for Four Hands on One Pianoforte, with the original version of the Minuet. Charles Matthews goes on to play organ arrangements of three works by Vaughan Williams.
We conclude with a hymn tune that Vaughan Williams named after his cousin and best man, Ralph Wedgwood, known to his friends as Randolph, set to words that Vaughan Williams salvaged from a Moody and Sankey hymn: God be with you till we meet again.
Serenade is a mixed bag of an album, and is both a celebration of a great anniversary and a further contribution to Albion's rich harvest of lesser-known works and new (and old) arrangements.
Reviews
Organist David Briggs shines in his sympathetic transcriptions of the orchestral version of the sublime Serenade to Music […] while the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea under William Vann deliver the goods with a memorably unstuffy For all the saints […]. Terrific contributions too, from the Tredegar Town Band under the direction of Ian Porthouse in five ‘flourishes’ for three or four trumpets […]. Lots to enjoy, in sum. Happy 150th, RVW!Gramophone
This album is no mere pot-pourri. The programme has been thoughtfully put together. And, furthermore, the album brings together a collection of artists – and recording producers and engineers – who have been stalwart in their support of Albion’s mission to make less familiar music by Vaughan Williams available to a wide audience. It’s a most enjoyable programme and a fitting tribute to VW.MusicWeb International
[David Briggs’s Serenade to Music] glows with affecting twilit colours. More infectious is his boisterous ‘March Past of the Kitchen Utensils’ from The Wasps. […] a disparate but adroitly programmed, beautifully performed compendium.Choir and Organ
Tredegar Town Band opens proceedings with a gleaming Flourish for Three Trumpets. […] Soprano Mary Bevan distils a gentle melancholy in ‘She’s like the swallow’, while tenor Nicky Spence finds plangency in ‘Now the winter’s gone and past’. Both are sensitively accompanied by William VannBBC Music Magazine December 2022
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